Top 10 Advent Calendars for Christmas 2022

From snacks and drinks to fidget toys, beard oil, and even escape room riddles, these advent calendars put a fresh spin on the countdown to Christmas!

Top 10 Advent Calendars for Adults and Kids

Let’s be honest. Around Christmas, the search for chocolates around the house isn’t a Where’s Wally level challenge. They’re basically like Wham!'s Last Christmas... they’re everywhere. So, do you really want them in your advent calendar too? Nope, you want an advent calendar with a twist. And you’re in luck!

Here we happen to have 10 advent calendars for adults and kids that’ll make this Christmas less predictable than the ending of Last Christmas (the movie, not the song). So, let’s get this countdown started… so you can start your own countdown to Christmas!

10. Retro Radio Advent Calendar

This year, FM doesn’t just stand for Festive Merriment. It stands for, uh, whatever FM stands for when you’re talking about radios. Because we’re talking about this Retro Radio Advent Calendar!

You get a different part each day for 24 days, letting you end up with a working FM radio on Christmas Eve. And, so you’ve got something fun to do while you’re collecting parts, you can carry out a different experiment each day. It’s great for ages 14+.

9. Electronic Games Advent Calendar

Everyone loves some good electronics at Christmas. After all, those aren’t candles we’re putting on our trees. And, a great way to get involved in the fun is with this Electronic Games Advent Calendar!

This advent calendar gives you a new electronic component every day that you can use to build 24 different games. Create a wire maze, a memory game, a code cracker, and much more. This advent calendar is loads of festive fun for ages 14+.

8. Joe and Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar

Christmas is a time for popping. There’s the popping of bubbly corks, party poppers, and popping off for a break when your visiting relatives start asking too many questions about your future. So, it’s only fitting that you should have a calendar full of popcorn!

This Joe and Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar is, like the name suggests, full of gourmet popcorn. You get 12 delicious flavours, getting to experience each one twice in the build-up to Christmas.

Alongside some classic Joe and Seph’s flavours, experience some fantastically festive tastes, like toffee apple and cinnamon, speculoos, and orange chocolate.

7. The Bearded Man Beard Oil Advent Calendar

Do you know a bearded person whose bristles are rougher than Santa’s sleigh flying through turbulence? They need this The Bearded Man Beard Oil Advent Calendar!

This calendar contains 24 beard oils, each in 2 ml bottles, which are good for up to six uses. And, unlike Wimbledon, there aren’t any doubles going on here, so this calendar contains 24 unique scents.

6. Fidget Toy Advent Calendar

Does all the extra sugar around Christmas get a certain someone fidgeting like an elf with nothing to do on the 26 ^th of December? Well then, this Fidget Toy Advent Calendar is the way to go!

In this advent calendar you’ll find all sorts of fun things to fidget with. We’re talking push poppers, spinning things, tubes, and toys to twist. Get a new toy each day for 24 days before Christmas.

5. Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Advent Calendar

It’s not just the fire that’s crackling this Christmas. This Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Advent Calendar is filled with delicious crackling!

You get 24 bags of crispy pork crackling, each containing 8g full of festively flavoured scratchings. You’ll be chomping down on Black Pepper flavour, Low & Slow BBQ, Marvellous Maple, Perfectly Salted, Pigs in Blankets, or Salt ‘n’ Vinegar flavour each day.

4. EXIT: Hunt for the Golden Book Advent Calendar

Christmas has its fair share of mysteries. What’s in all the gifts under the tree? Who ate the last mince pie? Why does Santa still rock the winter coat when he’s in the southern hemisphere? And, now, there’s a new mystery to solve, thanks to this EXIT: Hunt for the Golden Book Advent Calendar!

This advent calendar is basically an escape room in a box. You get a new clue each day for 24 days, helping you (hopefully) find the Golden Book on Christmas Eve… and save Christmas! Being beginner level, this calendar is awesome for anyone aged 10+.

3. Gourmet Marshmallow Advent Calendar

If you like your Christmas to be sweet and gooey, and you can’t keep watching It’s a Wonderful Life and Love Actually on repeat, this Gourmet Marshmallow Advent Calendar is definitely for you.

This advent calendar is filled with 25 delicious gourmet marshmallows from the Naked Marshmallow Co. You get a new marshmallow to much on each day, in one of 12 different flavours. Oh, and you can also enjoy the fact that this calendar is famous, having been on ITV’s This Morning and in loads of publications.

2. Star Wars Original Stormtrooper Beer Advent Calendar – Only at Menkind!

Christmas is a fantastic time for cracking open a beer as cold as the snows of Hoth. And, this Original Stormtrooper Beer 12 Days of Christmas calendar lets you do just that!

The idea is that you give this as a gift to a Star Wars fan. Then, they get a beer for each day of the 12 days of Christmas, which is certain to go down like a rebel base hit by the might of the Empire. You can also use it to count down the last 12 days before Christmas though.

Of course, much like the content in Santa’s naughty list, this is 18+ only.

1. Christmas Plasticine Advent Calendar

Fancy getting creative in the countdown to Christmas? Then you’ll love this Plasticine Advent Calendar!

This calendar comes with all the plasticine in all the colours that you’ll need. Then, each day for 24 days, you’ll open a new window and get instructions for creating that day’s masterpiece. You’ll end up making fantastically festive things like Christmas puddings, reindeer, holly, presents, and so much more. It’s super for ages 5+.

Advent Calendars at Menkind

If you like the sound of what we’ve listed here, but are curious about what else is out there, be sure to check out our website for more advent calendars. We have loads more advent calendars for men, women, and kids. And, they’re full of snacks, drinks, Funko figures, socks, and so much more.

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